Leadership Accountability

Workforce cuts are often framed as a necessary, rational response to economic pressure. Leaders justify redundancies using language like efficiency, streamlining, and shareholder value. On spreadsheets, the logic appears sound: fewer people,…

Leadership Will Never Be the Same If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that the world of work has been permanently reshaped. The pandemic, digital disruption, AI breakthroughs, and…

Soon we stand to see the demise of another Conservative Prime minister in the UK. With the race for a new PM fully underway. One person I would like to see step…

Leadership is often presented as the ultimate professional achievement. People spend years developing their knowledge, demonstrating their abilities and pursuing opportunities that will eventually place them in positions of authority. Promotion brings…

For generations, managers have built management systems around a remarkably simple assumption. If you want people to do more of something, reward them. If you want them to stop doing something, punish…

We have all heard of the seven deadly sins. If you are a regular churchgoer, you probably heard and recited them more than others. You will probably also understand them more than…

Leadership traits to be aware of and not only avoid people with them but also ensure you do not develop these yourself! I have seen it time and time again where the…

Decisive leaders seek out the appropriate information they need to make good decisions. Basically they have a broad understanding of the knowledge held by their team, colleagues, and leaders, henceforth this information…

Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters Almost every organisation claims to have values. Leaders display them on walls, print them in corporate literature and repeat them during induction programmes as though putting a collection…

Leadership gives people power, but power does not make someone a leader. An organisation can give somebody a job title, a team, a budget and the authority to make decisions, but none…